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Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker could make life difficult for special counsel Robert Mueller if he wanted to.

Will President Trump's State of the Union address unite a divided country? - and can it help him bounce back from the fallout of a five-week government shutdown?  Reaction from the southern border, and from around the nation on Morning Edition.

TERRY GROSS, HOST:

This is FRESH AIR. Billie Eilish is a 17-year-old singer-songwriter from California who's just released her debut album titled "When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?" She's already enormously popular on the strength of a series of singles she's released, most of them recorded at home with her brother as her producer.

Sequels have come to seem inescapable in movies and TV, where the commercial logic is to keep a franchise going — even if it has nowhere to go. That's why I was leery of Season 2 of Big Little Lies.

Amazon's announcement, last year, that it is building a new headquarters in Queens, a borough of New York City, received mixed reactions. Some were excited about the tens of thousands of jobs the tech juggernaut is promising to bring.

In the 1980s, Tracy Edwards dreamed of racing a sailboat around the world. But at the time, open ocean sailboat racing was a male-dominated sport. She was only able to sign on as a cook for an all-male team in the 1985-86 Whitbread Round the World Race, a grueling 33,000 mile endeavor.

Social media companies may be unprepared to support their growing role as providers of news.

Ever since I was young, I've loved stories set in the far-flung reaches of the West's many empires — from the British Raj of E. M. Forster's A Passage to India to the surreal Vietnam of Apocalypse Now.

Women who seek third trimester abortions are often facing a devastating diagnosis or a personal crisis.

On the next Fresh Air, we talk with Stephanie Land about her new memoir Maid which chronicles how she ended up in a homeless shelter with her young daughter after fleeing an abusive relationship.

Claire Tomalin is best known as a biographer. She has written books about the lives of Samuel Pepys, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and Mary Wollstonecraft.

On the next Fresh Air, we listen back to interviews with writer and peace advocate Amos Oz who died last week at the age of 79.

On the Next Fresh Air, we talk with writer Sigrid Nunez. Her latest novel “The Friend” won the national book award for fiction and is about to be published in paperback.

On the next Fresh Air, we talk with artist and novelist Jonathan Santlofer.